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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question
Date: 5 Jul 1996 18:16:43 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <4rkepr$i4@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <4qpkb1$le6@pier2.bayarea.net> <4qs2n2$962@pier2.bayarea.net> <31D372F4.4BC66F28@lambert.org> <4rk4p5$2td@pier2.bayarea.net>
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In article <4rk4p5$2td@pier2.bayarea.net>,
David McNab <mcnab@bayarea.net> wrote:
> I believe the problem was simply that I created
>a DOS partition (using fdisk) that was bigger than
>1GB. I don't know enough about MS-DOS filesystem
>architecture to understand why this might be a problem,
>but it seems like it is. I deleted the old partition
>and created a new one just under 1GB, and everything's
>fine.
> Can anyone corroborate or repudiate my little
>theory?
Happens to me as well (and caused a really horrible crash that, to
make a long story short, after fsck -y, caused my /bin directory to
vanish *ugh*), but my MSDOS partition is only 931MB, and cluster size
is 32K. I created the FreeBSD partition on the drive with fips, FWIW,
and, yes, it's Win95, so i assume that means vfat32.
rone
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